District Partners is partnering with a rapidly growing, privately held organization to identify a Director of Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting for a highly visible leadership opportunity. This is an exceptional opportunity for a Senior Manager or Director coming out of public accounting who wants to move beyond advising clients and take direct ownership of complex accounting matters, financial reporting, and team development.
Our client operates across multiple industries, with a sophisticated corporate structure, significant transaction activity, and continued growth. The accounting organization is evolving alongside the business, creating an opportunity for someone who wants to do more than maintain the status quo.
What You'll be Owning:
- Lead technical accounting research, policy development, and implementation of complex US GAAP guidance.
- Oversee consolidated financial reporting, financial statement preparation, and external audit relationships.
- Provide accounting guidance on acquisitions, joint ventures, and other complex transactions.
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing accounting team.
- Partner with executive leadership to strengthen financial reporting infrastructure, internal controls, and operational efficiency.
What You'll Bring to the Table:
- Active CPA license required.
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful leadership responsibilities.
- Strong public accounting background highly preferred, ideally with a Big Four, national, or large regional firm.
- Deep technical accounting expertise, including complex US GAAP research, accounting memoranda, and financial reporting.
- Experience managing teams and overseeing financial statement preparation.
- A hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset and an interest in building and improving processes.
Why this Role?
- Make the leap from public accounting: Apply your technical expertise directly within a dynamic business, without the demands of client service, billable hours, or busy-season cycles.
- Build something: Lead and develop a growing technical accounting and financial reporting function, with the ability to shape processes, policies, and team capabilities.
- Interesting technical challenges: Navigate complex consolidations, acquisitions, joint ventures, revenue recognition, leases, and sophisticated ownership structures.
- Executive visibility: Partner directly with senior finance leadership and serve as a trusted resource on significant accounting decisions.
- Drive transformation: Play a meaningful role in modernizing financial reporting, improving processes, and supporting future systems initiatives.